does anyone know where i can get some information on the myth of and facts behind necromancers?

videogames,
if they are to be believed...

but if u mix up the myths from most videogames u get what is the same in all and that probably is the original myth

sortoff


or u could try google...
there always is google :yikes000:

I started a thread on Necromancy in the "Arcane" section of the boards; maybe you should read that in the mean time; I'll look for some sites but google is a good search engine.

this seems quite thorough:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10735a.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos195.htm

I started a thread here in other-kin called necromancy a while back, it got moved to Arcane studies where it wasn't touched for a long time vanishing out of sight after which several other necromancy topics have appeared in arcane studies. and as such this topic is better suited to arcane studies than other-kin as necromancers are not monsters just humans.

*stands over a dead cat with a car battery*...anyone ready for a practical demonstration?

A useful website http://www.strangehorizon.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

And what arcane knowledge do you expect to divine from this cat? lol

lmao...



Well no shit...I'm not certain what the practical application of that knowledge is...but now I know what to watch out for the next time I need to install Linux on a dead badger.

Necromancy has NO practical aplications. Its a halloween game for most.

I once bought a Ouija board, got it out and than realized one small problem, "aside from the fact I was looking at card board and plastic" the problem was "what in the hell would I want to ask a ghost?"

why raise the dead? Necromancy is that weakest of magics next to illusinism and nothing usefull can come out of it.

and Vore if you hook the car battery to a dead cat you will get motion "just not life" they messed with that stuff for years in the British colleges they actually thought the muscle spasms they were causing in the dead tissue were signs of life.

I beg to differ. The practical application of Necromancy IS indeed to raise the dead in order to ask them things. Necro = death: mancy = Divination.

Just imagine...a circle of candles around a grave, three nervous occult students shifting uneasily on their numb backsides, suddenly - a spirit appears:

"Why dost thou disturb my eternal rest?"

"We want to ask you questions"

"ok Shoot?"

"...er...what's it like being dead?!

"I am SO FED UP of being asked that!!!"

Ghost disappears in a puff of smoke, grumbling.

Actualy no...they were investigating the nerve pathways...they showed early on that cutting nerves in the neck could stop messages from the brain getting to parts of a pigs body...The electrical stimulation research such as making frog legs twitch was an illustration of how movement is created in muscles through impulses. Oh and modern day Life Paddles that shock people back to life are very much akin to applying a car battery to a dead cat...it just won't work if the cat's braincells have degraded past the point where a nice jolt of oxygen rich blood might fire them back up.

The Novel Framkenstien was inspired by demonstrations be scientists and doctors who toured the houses of the upper class offering demonstrations of science much as you would a magic show...It earned them their keep.

We brits handed the world all the starting blocks of modern science and literature...and sometimes we forget to be cocky about it...So I shall make up for the lapse :P.